New Guinea

Title

New Guinea

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 138

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-30: Correspondence with Gilbert Murray about the views of his brother, Sir Hubert Murray, on the Australian administration of New Guinea and Lugard's subsequent action, with Professor A.R. Radcliffe-Brown on the use of The Dual Mandate as a text book for training administrative staff for New Guinea and with the Rev. J.D. Madigan on terms of labour contracts, 1928-1930.

File 2, fols. 1-10 and items 1-7: Report by Colonel John Ainsworth on "Administrative Arrangements and Matters affecting the interests of Natives in the Territory of New Guinea", presented to the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, with related papers circulated by the Mandates Section secretariat, 1924-1932.

File 3, fols. 1-20 and item 1: Newspaper cuttings about the decrease in population in the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, fears that the administration was not going well there, accusations of atrocities and a report by Dr W. Cilento, Director of Public Health, on "The Causes of the Depopulation of the Western Islands of the Territory of New Guinea", 1928-1929.

File 4, fols. 1-7 and items 1-2: Notes by Lugard, n.d., on the administrative report on New Guinea for 1925-1926, with the Australian Government's observations on the Permanent Mandate Commission's report and on the Rabaul Conference of 1927.

File 5, fols. 1-22 and item 1: Correspondence with the Anti-Slavery Society and with Gilbert Murray and Michael Leahy about the welfare of indigenous people employed in New Guinea, with a copy of Leahy's article on "The Central Highlands of New Guinea", 1933-1936.

Date

1924-1936

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box